Context: I'm a skinny nerdy kid that a lot of girls think of as "cute" but I'm not muscular or anything. The girl that I'm talking about is a really short blonde and has a cute face but not big boobs or anything. I'd say that I'm at least somewhat out of my league here, but it's worth a shot. We're both juniors in high school.

I met her through school and we share one class where all we do is talk constantly, which is great and somewhat uncharacteristic of me, since I'm a straight A student

We've hung out with mutual friends after school but we aren't together in any way. It might not be far off-base to say that I'm at least somewhat friendzoned at this point

So I'm friends with this girl and I have her number and I've had several conversations with her, but a) we're both in high school and it's a lot harder to come up w/ things to text about once we're on break and don't see each other everyday, plus b) she's an annoying texter, as in she will respond way later to a text or won't respond at all. This isn't just b/c she doesn't want to talk, since a) she always acknowledges the texts in the class we share and talks about it then and b) this guy I'm friends with (dating someone else) used to be good friends with her and mentioned the same thing.

The texts that I send are usually trivial or funny and that's how they're supposed to be, right?

How should I text her/keep in contact with her over break? It's honestly so much easier to flirt in person (in class mainly) but I'd prefer having at least some kind of contact with her, and I'd prefer to not come off as creepy or overly attached. I've kind of/not really tried kino, but obviously that doesn't really matter now. It's kind of unlikely that we're going to see each other in person over break. How should I proceed with this, given that I'm a complete noob at everything involving the opposite gender?

EDIT: Really sorry I haven't been on for a couple days but I genuinely appreciate all the advice.

Ask her on a date? You're on break, if you're afraid of her not responding, call her. She won't be busy all of break you should be able to get a date. Try and kiss her or escalate somehow if your kind of shy and she is too, take her ice skating. If you're not shy, take her ice skating. Falling around like idiots will break a lot of awkwardness and will initiate kino as you pick each other up. Be playful with her and tease her. See where things go.

That's a good idea for a first date, but I have to ask her to that kind of thing in person. Calling is...well I never call any of my friends, no one in my age group does. It's always texting FB or twitter or something. Yeah, with calling, I'm going to get a definite response, but that actually makes it more awkward if she says no. No response over text message IS a response.

Why ask her in person? Send a text saying "I'm going ice skating, wanna come?" Or just be like "we should go ice skating sometime!" That way she can't flake easily by saying she's busy. Also I'm guessing your in highschool right? I am aswell and felt the same about calling, hell I don't even like to call my girlfriend. But It's easier to get a solid date and time. Imo and if she says no over the phone, she'll give a reason. Then just say "alright that's cool, I'll talk to you later" treat her like you would a guy friend that says he's busy and can't hang out.

Thanks for that advice about teasing her, that worked well. We were talking about something, she responded nine hours later and I said something along the lines of how that must have broken a world record. She apologized and it worked out well. Later, I waited a long-ass time to respond and said something like "and yeah, i just broke your record"

Anyway, I'm reluctant to suggest hanging out over break, because the mutual friends that we have are both out of town for Christmas, and if I'm asking her to go anywhere, none of our other friends can/will go, and by default, I'm asking her out over text message, which is just really stupid imo. (Yeah, I'm going to ask her out, eventually, but in person)

Forget the in person shit, unless you're going to ask her to be your girlfriend. If your asking to hang out or go on a date text is fine. Dates really aren't that special, how many dates will you have in your life time? A lot, not really out of the ordinary, a usual Friday for some people. They're really no different than asking a friend zoned girl to hang.

I'm 16 as well, I'm telling you there's nothing wrong with asking a girl on a date through text. She won't think less of you and she really won't care because It's not significant and why wait till after break? So she has an easier time flaking? A simple "we should hang sometime" text will get you where you want to go. I've done it multiple times, and although I'm still a Noob at this stuff I've never been bitched at or frowned apon for doing it over text. Although asking to be gf and bf is different. Also if I texted her first I would wait until she texted me. But I have no idea if this is a good or bad thing to do.

In text, be straight and to the point. You don't build attraction in texts, you do it in person. My best friend had this dilemma, was texing this girl page after page, so I told him to hand me his phone. Had him a date in 4 texts. All I said was "So listen, I feel like I don't really know you that well right now, I don't like that. Coffee at ______ tomorrow at 6?" and that was basically it. Worked like a charm. I love coffee because you can sit on a couch with her in the store, and build attraction, but it's still in public so it makes her more comfortable than if you invited her to your house. Also better than a restaurant because you don't have to pay much and it's not taken as a serious "date". Just go for it man, you have nothing to lose.

This is just me, but sometimes I just will ask really out of the blue questions or strange pictures without context. Then I either don't respond or go on, business as usual, that way it throws them off guard and they think of why you sent it or whatever. Maybe that's stupid, but its fun for me so I do it.